Abe, G. 1986. An ethnohistory of Palau under the Japanese colonial administration. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Kansas.Google Scholar

Aldridge, B. and Myers, C.. 1990. Resisting the Serpent: Palau's Struggle for Self-Determination. Baltimore, MD: Fortkamp Publishing Company.Google Scholar

Alegado, D. and Finin, G.. 2000. Exporting people: the Philippines and contract labor in Palau. Contemporary Pacific 12: 359–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Anglim, J. 1988. Palau's strategic position places Palauan democracy at risk. Working paper of the Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University 40: 1–42.Google Scholar

Aoyagi, M. 1977. 文化変容と社会組織–ミクロネシア、ヤップとパラオの場合 [Culture changes and social organisation: the case of Yap and Palau in Micronesia], 史苑 Shien 37: 43–65.Google Scholar

Bautista, M. 2000. The grammatical features of educated Philippine English. In Bautista, L., Llamzon, T. and Sibayan, B., eds., Parangal cang Brother Andrew: Festschrift for Andrew Gonzalez on His Sixtieth Birthday. Manilla: Linguistic Society of the Philippines, 146–58.Google Scholar

Britain, D and Fox, S.. 2009. The regularisation of the hiatus resolution system in British English: a contact-induced ‘Vernacular Universal’? In Filppula, M., Klemola, J. and Paulasto, H., eds., Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond. London: Routledge, 177–205.Google Scholar

Chambers, J. K. 2004. Dynamic typology and vernacular universals. In Kortmann, B., ed., Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 127–45.Google Scholar

Chappell, D. 1994. Secret sharers: indigenous beachcombers in the Pacific Islands. Pacific Studies 17: 1–22.Google Scholar

Engelberg, S. 2006. The influence of German on the Lexicon of Palauan and Kosraean. In K. Allan, ed., Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. www.als.asn.auGoogle Scholar

Firth, Stewart. 1973. German firms in the Western Pacific Islands, 1857–1914. Journal of Pacific History 8: 10–28.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Flora, M. 1974. Palauan phonology and morphology. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of California, San Diego.Google Scholar

Gonzalez, A. 1983. When does an error become a feature of Philippine English? In Noss, R., ed., Varieties of English in South-East Asia. Singapore University Press, 150–72.Google Scholar

Greenhill, S. J., Blust, R. and Gray, R. D.. 2008. The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: from bioinformatics to lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 4: 271–83.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Hall, R. 1945. English loan-words in Micronesian languages. Language 21: 214–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Hazel, F. X. 1984. Schools in Micronesia prior to American administration. Pacific Studies 8: 95–111.Google Scholar

Hazel, F. X. and Berg, M.. 1980. Micronesia: Winds of Change. Saipan: Omnibus Program for Social Studies-Cultural Heritage, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.Google Scholar

Imaizumi, Y. 1990. 日本の軍政期南洋群島統治 1914–22 [Japanese naval administration in Micronesia 1914–22]. 国際関係学研究 [Studies in International Relations] 17: 1–18.Google Scholar

Josephs, L. 1975. Palauan Reference Grammar. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.Google Scholar

Josephs, L. 1990. New Palauan–English Dictionary. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.Google Scholar

Josephs, L. 1997. Handbook of Palauan Grammar, vol. i. Koror: Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction, Ministry of Education.Google Scholar

Josephs, L. 1999. Handbook of Palauan Grammar, vol. ii. Koror: Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction, Ministry of Education.Google Scholar

Kabayashi, I. 1994. The US Confidential Paper & Termination of the UN Trusteeship: Solomon Report, Independence of Micronesia. Tokyo: Toshindo.Google Scholar

Keate, G. 1788. An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his Officers, who, in August 1783, were there Shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a Packet belonging to the Hon. East India Company. York: Edward Peck.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Keesing, R. 1988. Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate. Stanford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Kikumura-Yano, A., ed. 2002. Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.Google Scholar

Kluge, P. 1991. The Edge of Paradise: Americans in Micronesia. New York: Random House.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Leibowitz, A. 1996. Embattled Island: Palau's Struggle for Independence. Westport, CT: Greenwood.Google Scholar

Lingenfelter, S. 1974. Administrative officials, Peace Corps lawyers and directed change on Yap. In Hughes, D. and Lingenfelter, S., eds., Political Development in Micronesia. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 54–71.Google Scholar

Lipski, J. with Mühlhäusler, P. and Duthin, F.. 1996. Spanish in the Pacific. In Wurm, S., Mühlhäusler, P. and Tryon, D., eds., Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, vol. 2.1: Texts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 271–98.Google Scholar

Llamzon, T. 1977. The phonology of Philippine English. In Bautista, M., ed., English is an Asian Language: The Philippine Context. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 41–8.Google Scholar

Lynch, D. 1973. United States policy towards Micronesia, 1945-1972. Unpublished PhD dissertation, West Virginia University.Google Scholar

Matsumoto, K. 2001. Multilingualism in Palau: language contact with Japanese and English. In McAuley, T. E., ed., Language Change in East Asia. London: Curzon Press, 84–142.Google Scholar

Matsumoto, K. 2010a. The role of social networks in the post-colonial multilingual island of Palau: Mechanisms of language maintenance and shift. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 29(2): 133–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Matsumoto, K. 2010b. Palauan language contact and change: a sociolinguistic analysis of borrowing in Palauan. In Dobovsek-Sethna, J., Fister-Stoga, F. and Duval, C., eds., Linguapax Asia: A Retrospective Edition of Language and Human Rights Issues, Collected Proceedings of Linguapax Asia Symposia 2004–2009. Tokyo: Linguapax Asia, 36–52.Google Scholar

Matsumoto, K. and Britain, D.. 2003a. Language choice and cultural hegemony in the Western Pacific: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in the Republic of Palau. In Dedaic, M. and Nelson, D., eds., At War with Words. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 315–57.Google Scholar

Matsumoto, K. and Britain, D.. 2003b. Contact and obsolescence in a diaspora variety of Japanese: the case of Palau in Micronesia. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 44: 38–75.Google Scholar

Matsumoto, K. and Britain, D.. 2006. Palau: language situation. In Brown, K., ed., Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. 9. Oxford: Elsevier, 129–30.Google Scholar

Matsumoto, K. and Britain, D.. forthcoming a. The vernacularity of Palauan Japanese. In K. Matsumoto and D. Britain, eds., Diaspora Japanese, special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language.Google Scholar

Matsumoto, K. and Britain, D.. forthcoming b. The sociolinguistics of the Japanese Diaspora: An overview of Japanese migration history and language contact. In K. Matsumoto and D. Britain, eds., Diaspora Japanese, special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language.Google Scholar

McArthur, T. 2002. Oxford Guide to World English. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar

McHenry, D. 1975. Micronesia: Trust Betrayed. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Google Scholar

McKinney, R. 1947. Micronesia under German rule 1885–1914. Unpublished MA thesis, Stanford University.Google Scholar

Mühlhäusler, P. 1996. German in the Pacific area. In Wurm, S., Mühlhäusler, P. and Tryon, D, eds., Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, vol. 2.1: Texts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 345–51.Google Scholar

Mühlhäusler, P. and Baker, P.. 1996. English-derived contact languages in the Pacific in the 20th century (excluding Australia). In Wurm, S., Mühlhäusler, P. and Tryon, D., eds., Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, vol. 2.1: Texts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 497–522.Google Scholar

Nan'yō-chō, 南洋庁 [South Seas Bureau] (1928, 1939, 1941, 1942) 南洋群島要覧 [Annual Report on Micronesia]. Tokyo.Google Scholar

Office of Planning and Statistics. 2005. 2002–2003 Census of Population and Housing of the Republic of Palau. Koror.Google Scholar

Office of Planning and Statistics. 2006. 2005 Census, vol. ii: Census Monograph Population and Housing Profile. Koror.Google Scholar

Palau Community Action Agency. 1977. A History of Palau: Traders and Whalers, Spanish Administration, German Administration, vol. 2. Koror: Palau Community Action Agency.Google Scholar

Palau Community Action Agency. 1978. A History of Palau: Japanese Administration, US Naval Government, vol. 3. Koror: PCAA.Google Scholar

Peattie, M. 1988. Nan'yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia 1885–1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Pierantozzi, S. 2000. Palauans and guest workers: an opinion paper. Contemporary Pacific 12: 349–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Pierantozzi, S. 2009. Palau supports US against Cuba for aid. Interview posted to ABC Radio Australia, 30 October. Retrieved 10 November 2012, from www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/onairhighlights/palau-supports-us-against-cuba-for-aidGoogle Scholar

Pomeroy, E. 1951. Pacific Outpost: American Strategy in Guam and Micronesia. Stanford University Press.Google Scholar

Rechebei, E. and McPhetres, S. 1997. History of Palau: Heritage of an Emerging Nation. Koror: Ministry of Education.Google Scholar

Roff, S. 1991. Overreaching in Paradise: United State Policy in Palau since 1945. Juneau: The Denali Press.Google Scholar

Schneider, E. 2007. Postcolonial Englishes. Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Seidlhofer, B. 2005. English as a lingua franca. In Hornby, A., ed., Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. Oxford University Press, R 92.Google Scholar

Shuster, D. 1978. Major patterns of social change instituted in Micronesia during Japanese colonial rule, 1914–1940. Unpublished term paper, University of Hawaii at Manoa.Google Scholar

Shuster, D. 1982. Islands of change in Palau: Church, school, and elected government, 1891–1981. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa.Google Scholar

Täuber, I. and Han, C.. 1950. Micronesian islands under United States trusteeship: demographic paradox. Population Index 16: 93–115.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Tayao, M. 2004. Philippine English: phonology. In Schneider, E., Burridge, K., Kortmann, B., Mesthrie, R. and Upton, C., eds., A Handbook of Varieties of English, vol. i: Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1047–59.Google Scholar

Thompson, R. 2003. Filipino English and Taglish: Language Switching from Multiple Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Tkel, D. 2000. Conversational Palauan. Guam: Micronesian Language Institute, University of Guam.Google Scholar

Trifonovitch, G. 1971. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. In Sebeok, T., ed., Current Trends in Linguistics, vol. 8: Linguistics in Oceania. The Hague: Mouton, 1063–87.Google Scholar

Tryon, D., Mühlhäusler, P. and Baker, P.. 1996. English-derived contact languages in the Pacific in the 19th century (excluding Australia). In Wurm, S., Mühlhäusler, P. and Tryon, D., eds., Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, vol. 2.1: Texts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 471–95.Google Scholar

United Nations (n.d.a). The United Nations and Decolonisation: Trusteeship Council. Retrieved 10 November 2012, from www.un.org/en/decolonization/trusteeship.shtmlGoogle Scholar

United Nations (n.d.b). The United Nations and Decolonisation: International Trusteeship System. Retrieved 10 November 2012, from www.un.org/en/decolonization/its.shtmlGoogle Scholar

Vidich, A. 1952. The political impact of colonial administration. Unpublished PhD thesis, Harvard University.Google Scholar

Wilson, H. 1972. The phonology and syntax of Palauan verb affixes. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa.Google Scholar

Two arrested for machete attacks (7 September 2012) Tia Belau [Koror, Republic of Palau]. Retrieved 10 November 2012, from http://tiabelaunewspaper.com/?p=594Google Scholar

Villagers ask officials to fix damaged sewer system in Melekeok, pay compensation (5 November 2012) Tia Belau [Koror, Republic of Palau]. Retrieved 10 November 2012, from http://tiabelaunewspaper.com/?p=110Google Scholar